From its Texas Rangers to its enthusiastic take on the death penalty, the Lone Star State has long been known for its aggressive stance on law enforcement. Thanks to a strange new, law it's a sting that may soon be felt by a number of the state's computer-repair people.

A recently passed law requires that Texas computer-repair technicians have a private-investigator license, according to a story posted by a Dallas-Fort Worth CW affiliate .

In order to obtain said license, technicians must receive a criminal justice degree or participate in a three-year apprenticeship. Those shops that refuse to participate will be forced to shut down. Violators of the new law can be hit with a $4,000 dollar fine and up to a year in jail, penalties that apply to customers who seek out their services.

Some of the area's larger companies already employee technicians with PI licenses, a fact which generally doesn't apply to small computer repair shops.

W32/Virut is a polymorphic virus that infects executables and screensaver files, and attempts to downloads additional malware. The Virut.CM variant also injects an iframe object into HTML based files, disables Windows file protection in order to infect essential protected Windows system files. A viral thread, running under winlogon.exe or services.exe, attempts to connect to an IRC backdoor through port 80 or 65520, in order to download additional malware components.

Virut infects executable files as they are accessed, by either subverting a call through the IAT (import address table) in the original host code to jump to itself, or completely replacing the entry point of the executable file to point to itself. Because executable files are infected in this way, files on network drives accessed from an infected computer may also be infected.

Due to the aggressive nature of this malware, some infected files may become corrupted, to the point where they are not possible to repair or clean. In such cases certain files might have to be restored from a backup. Install best antivirus program that suites PC for removing this virus.

Email is a prime means of communication for business purposes that is quicker and cheaper. It brings with it the necessity to make one's corporate messaging system as secure as possible.

Different E-mail threats:

A variety of different elements weaken your corporate email system and while some are widely known - such as email viruses - others tend to be ignored. Emails carrying offensive messages or confidential corporate information can create immense inconvenience and expense for a company that has not equipped its mail server with the appropriate tools. Some companies lull themselves into a false sense of security upon installing firewall. More targeted measures are needed to counteract this and other security loopholes in a corporate network.

1. Threat of information leaks: Organizations often fail to acknowledge that there is a greater risk of crucial data being stolen from within the company rather than from outside. FBI statistics, for example, reveal that among Fortune 500 companies, most data thefts in 1998 were by internal users. Again, research results carried in PC Week in March 1999 report that, out of 800 workers surveyed, 21-31% admitted to sending confidential information - like financial or product data - to recipients outside the company by email.

2. Threat of emails containing malicious or offensive content: Emails carrying sensitive information, or unsolicited mail messages sent out by corporate users are not the only problem a company has to tackle with regard to employees' email use. Under British law, employers are held responsible for emails written by employees in the course of their employment, whether or not the employer consented to the mail. The insurance company Norwich Union was asked to pay $450,000 in an out-of-court settlement as a result of emailed comments relating to competition.

3. Threat of spam: About 90 per cent of email users receive spam - or unsolicited commercial mail - at least once a week, a survey conducted by the Gartner Group shows. The research results, issued in June 1999, revealed that almost half those surveyed were spammed six or more times a week. The study surveyed 13,000 email users. Spammers can use a corporate mail server to send out their unsolicited messages, often bringing trouble upon the unwitting organization. Virgin Net recently underwent such an experience when one of its subscribers apparently used its network to send out 250,000 junk messages.

Email Security tips:

The security menaces are many, but effective solutions do exist. The first step to enhance security recommended by cyber-security consultants is the formulation of a corporate email policy document. This is used to inform all members of the organization which messaging practices are deemed unacceptable.

Corporations may choose from a selection of email security packages. Some solutions are created to tackle a particular menace alone while others contain a convenient bundle of tools to deal with the various hazards. It is up to each organization to select the software that best suits their needs.

An efficient anti-spam tool will pick up words and phrases that usually appear in unsolicited commercial emails and block the unwanted message from entering the system. While preventing inconvenience to recipients, this saves the corporation time that employees would otherwise have wasted reading and deleting junk mail - paid work time that could be better applied.

Facebook made tagging and sharing photos easier with its new face detection algorithm, a nifty little feature Facebook acquired when it purchased Divvyshot back in April. No more clicking on photos to select the faces of your friends as the new face identify feature will scan your uploaded photos and automatically select the faces in the photo.

If you have a Facebook profile, you've probably seen tagged images of you that you feel aren't accurate representations of your real-life person. The good thing is that tagging is boring and time consuming so a lot of people don't bother. Well, you better hope they don't find Facebook's new feature too convenient. Though it's not quite as drastic as Picasa's characteristic, which uses facial identification to automatically tag faces that you've tagged in the past, Facebook is making it easier to tag people with the introduction of facial recognition technology. Before, you had to select someone's face and then type in their name. Now, Facebook is automatically picks out the faces in photographs and just asks you for the name.

Over 100 million photos are uploaded to Facebook every day, making the social networking site something of a clearinghouse for random holiday snaps. Of course, those holiday snaps quite often contain people, and it’s in tagging those people that the whole process of adding photos to Facebook slows down a bit. The process is being automated, thanks to recent Facebook acquisition Divvyshot.

There are two methods by which ESET NOD32 Antivirus can be removed from system. They are described as follows.

Method 1:This method may not conduct a clean ESET NOD32 Antivirus removal. Before you perform this un-installation, please close all programs and uninstalling ESET NOD32 Antivirus in Windows NT/2000/XP requires administrative privilege.Step 1. Click Uninstall ESET NOD32 Antivirus from Start-Programs-Quick Heal group.Step 2. ESET NOD32 Antivirus Uninstaller will prompt for the deletion of Reports, and then proceed by pressing OK.Step 3. Uninstaller at last will prompt you to restart your system for changes to take effect

Method 2:A quick and safe way to completely uninstall and remove ESET NOD32 Antivirus program in seconds If you are unable to uninstall ESET NOD32 Antivirus from your computer by using above method, then try to download an automate removal tool.

There is actually a fantastic removal tool that can help you fully uninstall and remove ESET NOD32 Antivirus with great success and make sure all the now-defunct Registry entries and related files are eliminated automatically with a few clicks. Aside from this software, it can also completely remove other programs like Authentium, Norton, Trend Micro, Internet Explorer, or Microsoft Office, and similar programs.

Search giant Google has launched a new tool that allows programmers to perform Google searches directly from a window, instead of accessing the browser.

GoogleCL is available to download and can also be used to access Google's Blogger, Contacts, Calender, Docs, Picasa and YouTube services, right from the command prompt.

The tool, which has been released for Linux, Windows and Mac, will allow users to upload video on YouTube, edit documents on Google Docs and upload image folders to Picasa, directly from the terminal.

After downloading the gdata Python client library and GoogleCL, users need to unzip the files to a specific location. They then need to run a series of commands in the terminal window to download the client on to their systems.

Introduction to Win 7 Antivirus 2010: When you are surfing the net peacefully or doing work online, suddenly your PC goes blue screen without any hints. You may experience this a lot. It happens due to Win 7 Antivirus 2010.

When your Windows 7/ XP/ Vista detects an unknown error which make your operating system running inappropriately, your PC will encounter problems and go to blue screen immediately. You may get words or messages from the screen which is reading: ***STOP 0×0000001E(0xC0000005,0xFDE38AF9,0×0000001,0×7E8B0EB4). This is Win 7 Antivirus 2010 error.

Removal of Win 7 Antivirus 2010

1. There is BUG existing in your applications. As mentioned before, BUG or errors on your operating system can make it run improperly and go to blue screen finally. You should clear or fix virus completely.

2. You are loading too many programs while booting up your PC. Some users may get the Win 7 antivirus 2010 whenever they boot up computer. Too many programs added into Startup will not only slow down the booting speed, but also enhance the possibility of getting Win 7 antivirus 2010. Reduce the unnecessary items in Startup to make it run faster.

3. Incompatibility of software and hardware on your PC also may cause the Win 7 antivirus 2010 problem. When you install software or change hardware, you need to think about the compatibility of them and then make the decision.

4. Registry encounters problem or has been destroyed. Registry is a huge database including all the configuration information of all applications on your computer. Once it starts to show errors, you need to get some repair tool to fix Win 7 antivirus 2010 soon.

5. Win 7 antivirus 2010infection is also one of the main reasons. When your computer is attacked by unknown virus or malicious threats, it is easily to freeze or become blue screen. Moreover, it is extremely hard for common users to detect and remove the virus completely. You had better get a professional tool to fix Win 7 antivirus 2010 instantly.

Are you completely sure that your anti-spyware tool protects your computer from spyware? If no, then you should test your anti spyware with Spycar. It can help you determine whether the anti-spyware software running on your system can actually identify and block the latest spyware.

Spycar prepares a series of tests in the form of links associated to Windows executables that represent different types of spyware actionss. After the tests, Spycar provides a downloadable file called TowTruck 1.0 which measures how your anti-spyware tool acted on the changes initiated by the links. Towtruck will then evaluate whether the spyware-like behavior was blocked or permitted by your spyware tool. You can then use TowTruck to revert the changes done by Spycar and bring back your system to its previous state.Features:• Free and easy to use• Step-by-step instructions are provided• Evaluate spyware tools capabilities• Helps you determine if your system is spyware-free• Provides safe tests to check your anti-spyware tool

If you are one of those Windows XP users who has downloaded latest McAfee security patch file on 21st April 10, then you might face some trouble. However if you are working on Windows Vista or Windows 7, then you need not worry as this patch is working perfectly fine on these MS Operating Systems.

Step 1: Download EXTRA.ZIP, from the McAfee site and unzip to get EXTRA.DATStep 2: Click Start, Run, then type services.msc and click “OK”Step 3: Right-click the McAfee McShield service and select “Stop”Step 4: Copy EXTRA.DAT to “\Program Files\Common Files\McAfee\Engine”Step 5: Then restart the McAfee McShield service by right-clicking on it and choosing “Start” from the context menuStep 6: Re-enable access protection by going back to the VirusScan ConsoleStep 7: Right-click “Access Protection”Step 8: Select “Enable”Step 9: In the VirusScan Console, go to the Quarantine Manager PolicyStep 10: Click the Manager tabStep 11: Right-click on each file in the Quarantine and choose “Restore”

Once you have completed all these steps, your computer will function as it was before. All that we have done is these steps is disabled the erroneous patch and enabled the correct patch.